
A New Year's Tale: The Battle for the Wishing Crystal
The first Georgian 3D animated film.
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The first Georgian 3D animated film.
A newlywed in love finds it hard to leave his wife for work.

An amorous couple prepares for a picnic in the country. But the man's rage at a stuck doorknob leads to tragedy for both of them.

When night falls and everybody goes to sleep, the kitchen floor is home of the mice. In this comical short for all ages a little mouse has a musical encounter with the scared human inhabitants of his kitchen. This film is made in a traditional cartoon style but is drawn on computer, giving it a unique look.

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space. A clash ensues. The horse falls. Goblins take control. The night and its denizens are relentless. Forms appear and become grotesque. Will dawn and calm ever come?

Madeleine and Henri have lived together for the last twenty years in the middle of the countryside, miles from anywhere. One day, a recurrent quarrel takes a much more serious turn.

On a full moon night, a ten-year-old girl from a farming family in a remote village is lured by Moosina into a cave in the mountains, where she uncovers the secret about why the mountain demon always plays dirty tricks on children.

A vampire tries to sleep, but a terrible predator approaches.

Real images and superimposed drawings create a synthesis full of vibrant suggestions about the absurd, complex, and beautiful aspects of our planet.
Brother Theodore narrates and appears in this surreal hybrid animated/live action short film based on the Nikolai Gogol short story of the same name.

A touching story of the relationship between two teenagers who accidentally met in besieged Leningrad. Masha and Sergey are fighting hunger and death. She reads the book about the Nutcracker and the Mouse King over and over again, and the words of this story help her to be stronger, and he plays his favorite piano. The film is filled with soft sadness. The unique technique of combining animation and staged filming with the participation of actors gives the theme of war and the blockade amazing notes of authenticity of memories.

The animals make a party in the river bottom, to wait the Pororoca wave to pass.

A man gets on the train. Things that he sees cause him to have erotic and cruel associations with the sensuality of women and the industrial slaughter of animals. This train to self-annihilation goes only one way, there is no return.

This short surrealistic film portrays a growing boy and the bizarre world of imposed conditions and contradictions he evolves in. Made by students of Queen's University, A One/Two/Many/World is social commentary expressed in symbolic language.

Just as the hedgehog is about to begin hibernating, he notices that one of his quills is missing! And worse still, it's stuck in Lena's dog's bottom. Getting it back is anything but easy.
Dark and humorous, this extremely short film features a stream-of-conscious look at the writing process, told with animated images straight from the subconscious, or somewhere.

For her sixth birthday, a little girl receives her first box of coloured pencils from her mother
An alien with good intentions arrives in his spaceship on Earth.

A man and his wife try to enjoy a picnic, but strange and surreal happenings prevent them from doing so.

Based on drawings by Ildar Urmanche, the cartoon tells the story about actor who gives people experience of grief and happiness.

The film unfolds through the POV of the Palila called Anuenue who stood as the client in 1979 court trials. The legal battle leveraged the Endangered Species Act to protect māmane forests where 2,500 Palila competed with introduced sheep & goats. He explains how they won in court, but are still in jeopardy; in 2024, only 300 Palila remain. Today, a Native Hawaiian conservationist struggles to save them amidst escalating threats of climate change, wildfires, introduced predators, diseases, and governmental neglect.

Merab Saralidze short.